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How common is it for employers to look up prospective candidates' Facebook page?


I applied for a job recently and I noticed on Facebook's "People You May Know" tab that the owner (of the job that I applied for) shows up at the top of the page even though we have NO mutual friends. It made me believe that he was looking me up on facebook. I'm sure this is pretty common these days.

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Pretty common. I remember sitting next to my manager in the office after he interviewed a potential candidate and looked up the name on FB. We saw some inappropriate pictures and concluded that this potential candidate would be better suited elsewhere. Be careful what you post on social media :)

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I checked all my employees on their FB when they called in sick for work...

You won’t imagine how stupid they are, most of them will post blogs or upload pictures to what party they attended on their supposedly sick day..

They think cos they hear me saying all the time that I don’t have a FB page, they are right, but I do have a fake FB especially for this type of situation.

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If only they knew about your account over here!

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That's our love secret...

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Not anymore, I already posted it on Facebook! Hahaha!

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Link?

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Like I'm gonna tell you! Your employees are laughing their asses off reading your embarrassing comments!🤣

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I don’t think mob guys really laughs in general...

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You must never have seen Goodfellas!

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Whats so funny about Goodfellas?

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If I tell you that, I will have to kill you.

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What's so funny about that?

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If I tell you that, I will have to kill you.

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" You mean, let me understand this 'cause, maybe it's me, I'm a little fucked up maybe, but I'm funny how, I mean funny like I'm a clown, I amuse you ? I make you laugh, I'm here to amuse you ? What do you mean funny, funny how ? How am I funny ? "

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(Long suspenseful pause)

Get the fuck outta here!😂

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I'm not tech-savvy, but I have a serious email for important stuff, and a different email for silly stuff.
I'm not on FB at all.

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fucking squares, get a life

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It's quite common nowadays plus more of them are doing credit checks as well.

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